Last month, gay football player Michael Sam announced he was retiring from football indefinitely. In a new interview, Sam reveals new game plan: returning to grad school at his alma matter, the University of Missouri. He’ll get his masters degree in education, while honing his chops as a commentator on the Mizzou Network, the online channel for the University of Missouri Tigers. Sam hasn’t given up playing football either — he’s also training to prepare himself for the 2016 NFL season.

If you’d like to see Sam’s first appearance on the Mizzou Network as a commentator, it’s below.

Even though this is a great move — in the interview Sam says he left the CFL because he wasn’t improving as a player — many football fans aren’t impressed. He’s been trolled on Twitter:

@MichaelSamNFL why do you have NFL in your handle? I’m fine with your life choices but your football career is done.

Former player Shawne Merriman is also critical of Sam’s choice to work on his media skills:

In the same interview, Sam also says that, while he doesn’t regret his decision, if he hadn’t come out, he’d have been on a roster. Instead, he bounced around a few teams, ending up in Canada. This has been criticized as well:

In good news for Sam, though, ESPN’s SEC Network ran an hour-long documentary on Sam and his teammate L’Damian Washington last week as part of its SEC Storied series: